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>Was this guy literally unable to write bad music?

a lot of the 90s revival stuff where he started experimenting was pretty mediocre, but yeah, i'm a big fan

personal favorite is yellow princess

>>53026789
All of it is bad.

He's a kek. He's a meme. All he does is play basic chord progressions and arpeggiate the Fmaj7 chord in the phrygian mode. He's not different from all the kek memer garbáge y'all are spinnin on a daily basis. He's over.

>>53026851
>a lot of the 90s revival stuff where he started experimenting was pretty mediocre
Still haven't listened to that material, except for Old Girlfriends..., which I actually liked. Not as good as the older albums, but a few songs really stood out, like Diane Kelley, Fear & Loathing at 4th & Butternut and In Darkest Night.
It's amazing how much dread is hidden behind all this happy-sounding bluegrass fingerpicking.

funposting aside I think Fahey, along with a lot his other contemporaries on Takoma was a genius. While his style of playing is not without precedents, he takes a range of influences and turns them into something completely alien. There are lots of allusions and curt nods to the blues he so loved but unlike many of modern day imitators he doesn't mindless ape the progressions, and he adds a lot of things that are very unconventional in terms of modality/harmony along with some strange flourishes in his picking style. He lends a very specific mood to a lot of his pieces, it's definitely as eerie and imagistic as a lot of the early blues records, but with it comes a very ponderous sense of longing, different from that of a lot of bluesmen in that it isn't so much a want of physical security, but of a need for some kind of respite from those things, a want of a spiritual world. His music paints you a vivid picture of not simply a physical place, but of the spirituality inherent to that situation

>>53026789
also check out leo kotke and all the other takoma people who played with John Fahey... so good.

>>53027520
Been reading on Takoma Records, seems like an interesting bunch, I'll check them out. Thanks.

He's great. I prefer Robbie Basho overall when it comes to the whole Takoma/American primitive scene from what I've heard from Fahey, but The Dance of Death... and Death Chants... are incredible. Which albums of his have the most pronounced raga influence?

Mark 1:15 is just beautiful.

someone rec me some american primitivism

>>53028658
Why?

>>53027520
6- and 12-string guitar is gr8

>>53028742
because it's good

fun fact fahey listened to merzbow

Although he went all 'new age', William Ackerman's debut album boasts the most incredible guitar playing I've ever heard.

Quick, striking playing, like Fahey or Kotke, but far more melodic/cinematic. Still in the tradition of Primitivism, but more lilting and full of movement.

>>53030107
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTFgbkyTQyQ